The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
